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Patented Feb. 19, 1929.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOSEF TCTH, OF BUDAPEST, HUNGARY, ASSIGNOR- TO PETROL IGNUM COMPANYLIMITED, 01? BUDAPEST, HUNGARY.

METHOD OF MANUFACTURING FIGURES, CHARACTERS, INSCRIPTIONS, FRAMES,UTENSILS, AND OTHER ARTICLES, FANCY GOODS, AND THE LIKE.

No Drawing. Application filed September 19, 1923, Serial No. 663,719,and in Hungary September 22, 1922.

This invention relates to a method of manufacturing in a simple mannerand at a cheap price elegant, durable and impermeable artiticles, forinstance, figures. characters, inscriptions, frames, utensils, 't'ancygoods and the like. The essential characteristic feature ot theinvention is that the desired shape or only the skeleton of the articleto be produced is made from wooden plates, veneer, cardboard or the likeand that this skeleton is covered with a water-proof mass whichsolidifies subsequently, for instance marble-cement in doughy or liquidstate so that the finished product as regards outer appearance and outerproperties corresponds with the mass applied but as regards innerproperties possesses the common properties of the materials used.

The applying ot' the waterproof mass which is intended to form thecoating and which solidifies subsequently may be citected by hand forinstance by painting, dipping into the liquid mass, or mechanically forinstance with the aid of a squirting apparatus. As the mass to beapplied can be coloured at the liquid state in a simple and easy mannerthe articles may be coloured in the most various color shades. Thecoloring can be done also only after the applying of the mass eitherbefore or after the mass has solidified.

By applying the mass at certain points in thicker layers a plasticsurface may be produced.

The mass of artificial stone applied on the skeleton and solidifiedensures the water re sistance, durability and resisting capability ofthe article produced. The roundness at the edges of the skeleton areautomatically produced at the applying of the mass so that no specialwork is necessary for removing sharp edges or corners.

In some cases it will be desirable to arrange ornaments, figures,letters or the like which protrude from the surface of the article. Thisis attained in a simple manner by applying the ornan'icnts or the like,made according to this method, on the coating of the skeleton thematerial of which has not yet solidified so that the ornaments laid oncombine with the mass of the coating at the setting and are thusattached without special means of fiX- ation so that they form a wholewith the article produced. It is evident that the ornaments or the likemay have a different colour as the coating so that any desired colourett'ccts can be produced.

As the desired shape of the articles made according to this method hasbeen produced on the one hand by the corresponding shaping of thematerial which forms the skeleton and on the other hand by convenientlyarranging the coating mass on the skeleton, the expensive negativemoulds and the complicated treatmentrequired according to themanufacturing methods used at presentare no longer necessary.

I claim The herein described process of making ornamental articles,which consists in producing a rough skeleton form having sharp cornersand edges and generally conforming to the shape of the desired article,then dipping the skeleton form in a loath of marble cement while thelatter is in a fluent plastic state to coat the surface of the skeletonform with a layer of said cement having rounded corners and edges at thesharp corners and edges of said skeleton form.

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature.

JOSEF TOTH.

